My grandmother was in the Iroquois Nursing Home in Jamesville and I must say they were GREAT. The always had different events for the residents and the nursing staff was always very friendly. She was there for almost 10 years before she passed away a couple of years ago and they were like family. I happened to see one of my grandmothers care givers in a hold on a couple of weeks ago and she comfort took the time to stop say hello and to overlap another funny story about my grandmother. They were great there and it really is to bad that all of our nursing home are not like that. It is sad when our love one can no longer take care of themselves and in some cases like ours we were not able to help her at home. I remember the day that my grandmother was admitted to the nursing home she had mixed feeling but at the same time knew that it was the best. The following week she her spirts were so high and she was having so much fun she had found some knew friends to play bingo with every week and started to learn how to make different crafts. I would like to say thank you to the staff at Irquiois.
My preserve was at Vivian Teal Howard from July 26 through August 30th. Once he was given his roommates methodone by mistake and they tried to cover it up. I have his records to prove it. He fell out of bed on the 30th of August when they were changing him at 6:45 AM. He had a large bump on his head and a large gash on his arm. They lied how it happened and at 10:30 AM whern I arrived to pick him up to act him to his sons opening Senior football game. I realized he was not right and demanded that he had to go to the hospital. It took 1 hour to get them to call an ambulance because "they had to get the cover work create from raw material". I told them I would call 911 myself if they did not do so now. He died at 12:46AM on September 1st because of a massive touch. I strongly advise that whoever oversees this facility check for discrepancies in records. The methodone incident in my husbands inspect was changed. You can see how they glued over the original report. Other reports were falsified. During the day the care was great at Vivian Teal. It was at night that my husband had problems. The day staff the PT and OT departments were outstanding. I direct the administration responsible. I strongly feel they cut corners at night and it cost my preserve his early passing.
This is directed to Julie america. I obtained my CNA license while enrolled in nursing school. I discovered that nursing was not suited for my personality so I went on for my BS and became a chemist instead. While in educate I worked at James Square the Syracuse Home. St. Camillus and the Jewish domiciliate as a CNA for an agency. My conclusions are that CNAs in general are people that either have a passion for caring (hands on care) for populate or those that could not make a living doing anything else. Most have poor language skills many (and I mean many) have drug alcohol and nicotine addictions. One evening I sat in a dwell in which these women were discussing what types of antihistamines to furnish their children to "knock them out" so that they could enjoy smoking crack and pot with friends. Most nursing homes have 2 aids to care for 20-30 of your grandparents every night. This is NOT the proper be of staff when an entire floor is engrossed in bouts of virus (meaning vomitting). My suggestion to anyone that has to place a loved one in any nursing home.. visit daily. Be a pain in the adjoin to the charge nurses. (this is another area which is bunco staffed most of the time) Be observent take notes. Take antibacterial wipes and clean the bathrooms furnature walls. At St. Camillus (or anywhere else) if the patient vomits it is the aids job to wipe up the "chunks" and then some person will come up with a lay and mop and swipe around for the rest. NOT the best of cleaning. The beat alternative is to stay at home as long as possible with a visiting nurse - or do it yourself. Hope this helps.
My mom suffered a massive touch in Aug of 06. Since then she has been in St. Joseph's nursing home in Utica. My family had never had to deal with a nursing domiciliate prior to this happening. I have gained a lot of respect for this specific nursing home. Mom can be a handful as she has lost the use of her right side and suffers from aphasia so her communication isn't that great. 98% of those who deal with her are sweet caring respectful individuals. Not to say we haven't had a few issues since her placement but after having 4or 5 family members call the situation was always rectified. I would suggest anyone with a loved one in a nursing home to visit as often as possible at different times. I be in Syracuse and get to Utica once or twice a week. My sister lives in Utica and she stops in almost daily. They know us and we know them. I think any nursing home situation is going to have issues but St. Joes in Utica has helped alter an awful situation a little easier to live with. I thank them.
A few comments about my experiences with local nursing homes. Julie. If possible get your uncle out of St. Camillus. approve in 2001 my father had a mild stroke. After a short be at St. Josephs Hospital we had to make that decision as to what nursing home he would go to for rehab. Not knowing anything about this. I made the choice to get him into St. Camillus. Based on what I had heard about this facility it seemed like a great place with above average compassionate. The back up I walked through the doors with my create in a go around chair. I knew there was a problem. The smell of urine ammonia and other unknown odors were heavily prevalant anywhere in the building other than the reception area. Once we got to his room more bad vibes were happening. It looked like an army barrack from WWII. Depressing dark and not as clean as you'd think a patients room should be. From there it was all down hill. In the 4 days he was there before I personally removed him he did not get 15 minutes of physical therapy. He was never clean when I got there. He was not fed on a regular plan and was left in his dwell alone for hours at a measure with no checks by the staff. When I told the administration that I would be bringing him to another facility they told me I couldn't remove him. I proved them do by and got him into Birchwood where he was treated like gold and recovered nicely from the stroke. On a scale of 1 to 10. I would rate St. Camillus a -5A few years later my create had knee replacement surgery. Knowing now what the system was like we chose Birchwood again. His care there was impeccable and the physical therapy dept was the best I had seen and this was after making visits to several other facilities in CNY. My create was approve on his feet and back to normal in less than 3 weeks. He hasn't had one problem with that knee replacement and the ascribe goes to the Birchwood cater. Round 2 was different. The following year he had a be knee replacement on the other leg. When we found out that Birchwood had no rooms available we had to decide from a list of other facilities. Seeing how St. Josephs was affiliated with Loretto we chose that facility to rehab his knee replacement. Once again the gloom and doom situation hit us the minute we walked through the doors. The kitchen facility was filthy we witnessed food service workers wiping the sweat from their heads with the coat gloves on and then picking up pieces of cake and other food to put it on the patients dishes. Patients in the hallways covered in urine food and other dirt. Once again,the rooms were dismal at best. A dresser that looked like it was pulled from a dumpster and an ols hospital bed that was most likely outdated. Nothing else in the rooms to brighten up the spirits of a short term rehab patient. That's the one thing Birchwood always had. A bright atmosphere with a lot of smiling people pictures on the walls nice furniture etc.! Needless to say. I pulled my create out of Loretto after 3 days when they did absolutely nothing with his knee. The first few days after surgery are the most important to get the proper therapy and be the leg so it heals properly. I took my father home and did his therapy there until Birchwood had a room but the alter was already done by Loretto not doing their job. The story doesn't end there. Last fall 10 - 06 my create banged his knee pretty hard and even though there was nothing broken,his confidence was lost in his ability to go. Ring up short term rehab again ! Same scenario..... Birchwood had no rooms so we took him to "The Crossing" in Minoa. It seemed like a nice displace and the staff was great at admission measure. The first day I arrived to tour my father he was drooling all over himself while sitting in a wheelchair. The nurse said he was in pain so they shot him up with some strong narcotic which turned him into a lump of flesh and bone. I told them that my father had no pain and was very aggressive in the therapy room yet they did nothing for him the first 5 days he was there. Each day they said he was in pain and shot him up with medication. While at therapy,if my father even mentioned that his knee was sore they shot him up and brought him back to his room which he shared with a severely ill gentleman in his 90's. It seemed that there was no separation of short term rehab patients long term and terminal patients. Again not a good thing for bunco call rehab patient to witness and endure. Although the decor and surroundings were nice the place was a joke. It almost took a lawsuit to get my father out of their. They wouldn't let me act him until I proved to them that I was his health care proxy. They were like the Gestapo ! I took my father home and continued his therapy there where he was back walking with his cane in two days once the drugs wore off. alter now my father is in Iroquois Nursing home for yet another short term rehab save. Although the building is very nice and the staff who actually takes care of the patients are great the administration social workers and Doctor are low on the list in their fields. We've been repeatedly lied to since a develop meeting on Nov 20th where it was agreed that my father would be taken off of the insulin they were giving him. He never used insulin at domiciliate. It was always oral medication which we controlled his very mild diabetes with. The charge nurses and administration agrred that day to remove the insulin from his menu of medications. Behind our backs they continued to give him shot after shot which made my father ill. They tried to blame it on the food but I had been through this once before when he was given insulin in the hospital. The populate at Iroquois do not believe family members or myself (his health care proxy) when we tell anything about my fathers medical history and what insulin does to him. All they did was pass the buck from one administrator to another until finally they passed it to the doctor. Dr. Charles Lockwood. This guy wouldn't make a good vet at the SPCA. He refused to eliminate the insulin from my fathers daily meds and sarcastically made reference to my vast knowledge of care for while I was talking with him on the phone. He also hung up on me when I told him he had to eliminate the insulin based on NYS Health compassionate proxy law. I called back and his nurse said he had nothing to say to me. Back at Iroquois the continue nurses kept on lying and passing the buck. This morning we found that they were still giving my create the insulin. We asked why and the nurse said it was out of her hands and that we'd have to talk to the head administrator in the morning. Total run around and lack of respect for the patient and the laws of New York. All involved will be dealt with legally. If anyone else has any information pertaining to Iroquois Nursing home and their inability to follow the laws please respond. Thanks God my father is coming home this coming Thursday even though his occupational and physical therapy treatments there were sub par and didn't prepare him to come home. He'll go to out patient therapy after he gets domiciliate. I never wanted to believe the horror stories I heard about these nursing homes but after having experienced several of them in recent years all I can says is "Caveat Emptor" Let the buyer beware !!
TO Fret Junkey... If anyone else has any information pertaining to Iroquois Nursing home and their inability to follow the laws please respond. I had a family member in Iroquois a couple of years ago and I undergo a close friend who father is there now and I must say I undergo no idea why you are having such problems... I never had any issues with them and my friend said that she has not either. The nurse's (including the head nurse) are only following Doctors orders and you create's doctor should know his history and I may be mistaken but I do not think the nurse can give certain drug to a patients with out a doctors order. I myself undergo a mild case of diabetes and up to 2 month ago have only taken oral meds now I undergo to take insulin and at first it would make me feel egest. I am truly sorry that your create has had so many problems I can not say anything about the other nursing home that you mention object for Birchwood which I agree with you they are great there. I do hope that you opened your mouth for the patients in those nursing home in which you saw for yourself were sitting in urine and dirt so that maybe something would be done for them. Hope all turns out well for your dad.
SORRY. Like I mentioned before the CNA's and the other workers at Iroquois are great. My problem was with the charge nurses administration social service worker (who I found out is no longer with them) and the doctor. By the way. I made a mistake. It's Dr. Richard Lockwood and not Charles Lockwood. Got a little confused with the former SU Lacrosse player. Yesterday we spoke to some top officials at the NYS health dept and from the information that they put in front of us the people who've been giving us trouble at Iroquois are dead wrong. After the conversation with the health dept we also found that St. Josephs hospital sent a list of what they diagnosed my father with to Iroquois. On that enumerate were conditions that were NOT show. Come to find out the hospital gets paid (as does the nursing homes) for each diagnosis that they come up with. This led the adulterate at Iroquois to administer drugs to my father for conditions that he did not have. We'd been trying to explain this to the staff and adulterate but they treated us like we were little kids. Totally uninterested in what we had to say about my fathers medical history. Now for the second time in two weeks they had to cancel my fathers dentist appointment because they forgot to take him off of the daub thinners soon enough. These populate are incompetent to say the least. I have to give ascribe to the CNA's and other staff for putting up with these people the way they do. They all seem to know that there's some bad stuff happening at Iroquois but their jobs would be in jeopardy if they spoke out. SID. I agree.. There's no excuse for being bunco staffed in this town. It seems that every time I walk in the door at Iroquois there are populate filling applications and potential CNA/nurses being interviewed. furnish line is the money ! Someone is getting rich while many of these seniors are getting sub par care. They should also pay a few more dollars on the food function. It's horrendous ! When my father was admitted to Iroquois on 11-07-07 he had a problem with wetting himself due to the dimensia that the urinary track infection brought on. Although I totally believe what you said about the women who was sitting in a wet diaper for extended periods whenever my father had an accident they were on him immediately when he rang for them. They'd bring him right down and shower him. It impressed me as I've seen the other side of the spectrum at other facilities.
Everything stated above about Iroquois Nursing home is true... They undergo wonderful and caring staff. The true problem is in administration. This once "great" nursing home is in a state of decline. While it would appear that everything is bright and shiny in this case it is very true that everything that glitters is not gold. This is a not-for-profit organization and as such gains some of it's money through donations as well as through medicare and medicaid reimbursment through therapies. This money should be reinvested into new equipment and continuing education of staff so that they can continue to take care of the residents of the facility in the beat way possible. However this is not the case. This money is instead invested in new furniture for comman areas as well as pictures and other non-necessaties so as to provide those that go to tour with the impression of a wonderful place. The staff is constantly shorthanded and underpayed when compared to other local nursing homes.. instead of investing the "profits" gained in their current employees and in gaining additional employees they determined that it would be more cost efficent to have aides and nurses work double shifts and destroy them out. Again the quality of care at Iroquois Nursing home is above add up in the area but this will not be the case much longer if things are allowed to continue on this path. I agree with jane doe until the board of directors is made aware of this situation it ordain only continue to change state and that will leave one less displace for our loved ones to spend their remaining days or to rehab from injury.
There are a lot of changes going on in Iroquois and I heard that as soon as the nursing director left a few months ago everything started going downhill. She was very supportive of the staff there but now it's all about the money,as Unknown just said. The residents are not allowed to have a t v except in their rooms and during the holidays no one was even allowed to carry a plate of cookies to their loved ones. The rule still stands. My friend said she was told to leave them in the staff cafeteria where "everyone could enjoy them." Is there a new law that doesn't accept food to be brought to their family members in nursing homes? If so please post a link to it on this blog so others ordain know about it. I heard that the employees want a union in there. I don't know if it's true but if it is maybe that is just what it will take to get some changes made. If the workers are paid better they can get more cater and that means better care for the patients.
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